Tiantang Suantai Zhi Ge

Name: Tiantang Suantai Zhi Ge
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ISBN: 9781611457070

ISBN-10: 1611457076

ISBN-13: 9781611457070

Edition: N/A

Authors: Mo Yan, Howard Goldblatt

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The farmers of Paradise Countyhave been leading a hardscrabble life unchanged for generations. The Communistgovernment has encouraged them to plant garlic, but selling the crop is not assimple as they believed. Warehouses fill up, taxes skyrocket, and governmentofficials maltreat even those who have traveled for days to sell their harvest.A surplus on the garlic market ensues, and the farmers must watch in horror astheir crops wither and rot in the fields. Families are destroyed by the randomimprisonment of young and old for supposed crimes against the state. The prisoners languish inhorrifying conditions in their cells, with only their strength of character andthoughts of their loved ones…

Book details

List price: $14.95
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 11/1/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English

Mo Yan was born in 1955 to a peasant family in Shandong. He is the author of Red Sorghum, The Republic of Wine, Shifu, and Youï¿½ll Do Anything for a Laugh. He and his family live in Beijing.